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Flam: Do COVID-19 vaccines prevent infection or just lessen the severity. More study is needed.
If there鈥檚 a common theme in the errors of the U.S. response to Covid-19, it抖阴ap been the astounding amount of squandering. Our leaders squandered time, as well as public trust...
Flam: There’s good news about coronavirus immunity, but don’t bet your life on antibody tests
A mere month ago, the idea of immunity passports had raised hopes that people who survived Covid-19 would be freed from indefinite, costly confinement. Scientists warned, though, that our immune...
Guest Commentary: How scientists finally got Americans to worry about the climate
The evidence was strong 10 years ago, even 20, that the world had a problem with global warming. We knew then that it was going to exacerbate extreme weather and...
Guest Commentary: Corporations shouldn’t be able to patent your DNA
The practice of patenting genes, once banned by the Supreme Court, may come back soon despite a measure of horror the very idea once inspired. Author Michael Crichton warned of...
Biased research fueled countless harmful diet fads
For all its prominence in public health, there's little real understanding of overeating, being overweight, and how these things connect to each other and to illness. A widely circulated piece...
Flam: Was the CDC really banned from using seven words and phrases?
It now appears the rumor that the government was banning the term 鈥渆vidence-based鈥� from the Centers for Disease Control was itself not entirely evidence-based.
Flam: Why extremely rare events keep happening all the time
The funny thing about this week's coincidence of solar and lunar cycles is that astronomers can't decide if we should be more surprised that it's happening or that it hasn't...
Flam: The science of salt consumption is quite reassuring
Salt is not a rising health scourge. U.S. salt consumption has been holding steady for decades, and is about the same as the global average.